Does it work with the Acquia stack?

DX8 has been developed to work with Acquia technology. It works with Acquia Cloud, Acquia Cloud Site Factory and Acquia Lift. The DX8 development roadmap includes closer integrations with these technologies.

Does it work with revisions and workflow?

Can I use it on an existing website?

You can use DX8 on an existing website to offer the page layout and content authoring capabilities to website editors. When using DX8 on an existing website you can simply add the DX8 layout builder field to content entity bundles where you want to provide this feature.

You'll also need to use DX8's component builder to create content and layout components for your website editors to use within the layout builder.

Can I extend it's functionality?

If you're a developer, you can extend DX8's functionality using the methods below.

Field Formatters

Field data from content entities can be rendered on a DX8 template either as raw data via tokens, or using the field’s default Field Formatter.

If using a Field Formatter, the output will be exactly as defined by the field module. This means DX8 will work seamlessly with core fields and contributed modules that supply their own layout and templates for their field output.

Developers are also able to create custom fields with custom formatters and DX8 will render these exactly as the developer has defined.

Blocks

The simplest way to inject developer created layout and styling into the DX8 templates is to define them as a standard Drupal block. With that approach you can create any layout you need, bring in blocks defined in drupal.org modules and retain 100% control of the layout of that block.

Custom DX8 elements

The downside of using a block is there is no way to give a site builder options from within the DX8 sidebar editor. To do this, you can create your own DX8 element and define its form using the Plugin API. For more information, see the user guide: How to create a custom element